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** When Max borrows Wade's M1911-style pistol to shoot someone, he doesn't cock it, and after he fires it the hammer remains down: indicating that the gun is probably an airsoft prop.

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** When Max borrows Wade's M1911-style pistol to shoot someone, he doesn't cock it, and after he fires it the hammer remains down: indicating that the gun is probably an airsoft prop. The muzzle flash is also much brighter than it should be, showing that it's animated in.



* ShoutOut: Jensen [[Film/TheMatrix sneaking through an office, even saying "I need an exit."]]

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* ShoutOut: ShoutOut:
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Jensen playing with a couple toys, one of them a Godzilla, recalls Wash and his dinosaurs in ''Series/{{Firefly}}''.
** Jensen again,
[[Film/TheMatrix sneaking through an office, even saying "I need an exit."]]
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Renamed and only applies to groups.


* PowerWalk: After Aisha sneaks the Losers back into the US. In ''coffins.''
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* TheTeam:
** TheHero: Colonel Franklin Clay.
** TheLancer: Aisha, Roque. [[spoiler: Also TheStarscream]]
** TheBigGuy: Cougar.
** TheSmartGuy: Jensen.
** TheChick: Pooch.
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* SpiesAreDespicable: With the notable exception of Agent Stegler, who is noted as being one of the last of an older school of spy, spies are universally seen as bad people and not nearly as competent as they like to pretend to. And of course, the BigBad Max is a RogueAgent.
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* RefugeInAudacity: Jensen infiltrates a high security office building via obnoxious singing, thus getting an elevator to himself to change outfits.
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** In the Bolivia scenes the crew go from using working M4 carbines for the assault on the compound, but carry what look very much like air rifles when they're awaiting the helicopter evac.

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** In the Bolivia scenes the crew go from using use working M4 carbines for the assault on the compound, but carry what look very much like air rifles when they're awaiting the helicopter evac.
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* GunsDoNotWorkThatWay:
** When Max borrows Wade's M1911-style pistol to shoot someone, he doesn't cock it, and after he fires it the hammer remains down: indicating that the gun is probably an airsoft prop.
** In the Bolivia scenes the crew go from using working M4 carbines for the assault on the compound, but carry what look very much like air rifles when they're awaiting the helicopter evac.
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* NiceHat: Cougar: "''Never'' touch the hat."
** Jensen gets one too. A PIRATE hat. Of course, the situation he uses it in, well...:
--->'''Clay:''' Jensen, I have to ask... are you hacking in your undies again?\\
'''Jensen:''' No way, Jose! I'm wearing [[HandOrObjectUnderwear a HAT]].
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* NonverbalMiscommunication: When on top of a tall building, the villain nods to his agent, who then throws a businessman down. Villain then "complains" that it wasn't that kind of nod and he just wanted the agent to beat the victim.

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* NonverbalMiscommunication: When on top of a tall building, the villain nods to his agent, who then throws a businessman down. Villain off. The villain then "complains" that it wasn't that kind of nod and he just wanted the agent to beat the victim.
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* NonverbalMiscommunication: When on top of a tall building, villain nods to his agent, who then throws a businessman down. Villain then "complains" that it wasn't that kind of nod and he just wanted the agent to beat the victim.

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* NonverbalMiscommunication: When on top of a tall building, the villain nods to his agent, who then throws a businessman down. Villain then "complains" that it wasn't that kind of nod and he just wanted the agent to beat the victim.
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* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: Max escapes at the end. He gets robbed by some thugs, but he still got off pretty clean after everything he did throughout the film.]]
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* KnifeNut: Roque's EstablishingCharacterMoment consists of pulling out a big knife as his stake in the poker game, then pulling an absolutely HUGE knife to raise the stakes.
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:The Losers stop Max's plan to start World War III and ensure global American dominance, but Aisha betrays the team and kills Clay by dropping a WP grenade next to him. Cougar is mortally wounded trying to escape, and ends up detonating a nuke to destroy Max and his country. Aisha's last appearance has her fighting 100 of Max's goons with no indication thst she got far enough away from the blast in time. Jensen and Pooch manage to make a clean getaway and it's made clear nobody who wants them dead knows they survived]].

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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:The Losers stop Max's plan to start World War III and ensure global American dominance, but Aisha betrays the team and kills Clay by dropping a WP grenade next to him. Cougar is mortally wounded trying to escape, and ends up detonating a nuke to destroy Max and his country. Aisha's last appearance has her fighting 100 of Max's goons with no indication thst that she got far enough away from the blast in time. Jensen and Pooch manage to make a clean getaway and it's made clear nobody who wants them dead knows they survived]].
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* PaintingTheMedium: Location names in the film appear in huge letters superimposed on the landscape.

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* CoolCar: PlayedForLaughs with Clay's choice of a bright yellow Pinto as a getaway car. He insists it's a classic.



* EvenEvilCanBeLoved: Drug smuggler/ gun smuggler/ all-around bad guy Fadhil's daughter goes after the Losers to avenge his death. [[spoiler:Who's his daughter? [[FaceHeelTurn Aisha]], who still rejoins the team for the final confrontation.]]

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* EvenEvilCanBeLoved: Drug smuggler/ gun smuggler/ all-around bad guy Fadhil's daughter goes after the Losers to avenge his death. [[spoiler:Who's his daughter? [[FaceHeelTurn Aisha]], who still rejoins the team for the film's final confrontation.]]

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** Pooch really loves this trope, stating, "There are few things in life that a liberal application of duct tape can't solve."



* MrFanservice: The whole team. ([[EvenTheGirlsWantHer Including Aisha.]])


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* EvenEvilCanBeLoved: Drug smuggler/ gun smuggler/ all-around bad guy Fadhil's daughter goes after the Losers to avenge his death. [[spoiler:Who's his daughter? [[FaceHeelTurn Aisha]], who still rejoins the team for the final confrontation.]]


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* EvilIsPetty: Max [[BoomHeadshot shoots an assistant]] for ''stumbling'' and moving Max's parasol.


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* MrFanservice: The whole team. ([[EvenTheGirlsWantHer Including Aisha.]])
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* CaliforniaDoubling: A rare double subversion. The entire film was shot in Puerto Rico, including a segment set in...the Port of Los Angeles.
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* WouldHurtAChild: When Clay tells Max that there are children at the target of a missile strike, Max's response is, "And you think I didn't know that?"
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* SkyHeist: The team attack a VulnerableConvoy, bringing it to a halt in the middle of the street. While the armoured car is stopped, they fly over it in a helicopter, lower an electromagnet on to the roof, and then fly off with the truck suspended below them.
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* Overcrank: At some point during every fight sequence, usually several times.

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* Overcrank: {{Overcrank}}: At some point during every fight sequence, usually several times.
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* KnifeNut: Roque's EstablishingCharacterMoment consists of pulling out a big knife as his stake in the poker game, then pulling an absolutely HUGE knife to raise the stakes.


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* Overcrank: At some point during every fight sequence, usually several times.
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* BadBoss: Working for Max can really shorten your life expectancy. In the movie, Max shoots an attendant just for fumbling the umbrella she's been holding over him on the beach. [[spoiler:Later on, he has an entire special ops team eliminated (off-camera) just because Wade had already briefed them on the plan to kill Clay and his team; once the plan changed, they knew too much.]] And, of course, he spends much of the story trying to get the Losers killed or otherwise out of the way.

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* BadBoss: Working for Max can really shorten your life expectancy. In the movie, Max shoots an attendant just for fumbling the umbrella she's been holding over him on the beach. [[spoiler:Later on, he has an entire special ops team eliminated (off-camera) just because Wade had already briefed them on the plan to kill Clay and his team; once the plan changed, they knew too much.]] And, of course, he spends much of the story trying to get the Losers Losers, who had been working for him albeit unwittingly, killed or otherwise out of the way.
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* BadBoss: Working for Max can really shorten your life expectancy. In the movie, Max shoots an attendant just for fumbling the umbrella she's been holding over him on the beach.

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* BadBoss: Working for Max can really shorten your life expectancy. In the movie, Max shoots an attendant just for fumbling the umbrella she's been holding over him on the beach. [[spoiler:Later on, he has an entire special ops team eliminated (off-camera) just because Wade had already briefed them on the plan to kill Clay and his team; once the plan changed, they knew too much.]] And, of course, he spends much of the story trying to get the Losers killed or otherwise out of the way.
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* BadBoss: Working for Max can really shorten your life expectancy. In the movie, Max shoots an attendant just for fumbling the umbrella she's been holding over him on the beach.


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* CallBack: "We appreciate you meeting us at a single-story facility," from the scientist whose coleague was thrown off the 57-story roof earlier in the film.


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* OverlyLongGag: Between the BigBad and TheDragon, in the movie: "Get me an eighteen-man fire team in twelve hours." "By the way, get me an eighteen-man fire team, in twelve hours." "Did I mention?..." And so on.
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: The team giving a bunch of kids their sears on an evacuation vehicle gets them blown up.

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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: The team giving a bunch of kids their sears seats on an evacuation vehicle gets them blown up.

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